Rest of the animals
Snakes
Crocodile, Look at the fiery eyes
We started from the zoo at 10:30 AM and went to Chamudeswari temple, we reached the temple at 11 AM. There was a huge rush in the temple and we got darshan at 1:15 PM, indeed we had a great darshan
We started from the temple at 1:30 PM and headed towards Mangalore, en route we searched our Google baba for a good veg restaurant and found out this gem of a place Sepoy Elite. we were very satisfied with North Indian thali and I will rate 4.5/5.
My BEAST
we started to Mangalore and the road connecting Mysore and Mangalore was full of steeps and slopes. I made a good decision by not planning Chennai to Mangalore at one stretch, it would have been very tiresome for me. We reached Mangalore at 8:30 PM, finished our dinner at a local restaurant and went to the room. We booked our stay at Niasha Youth Hostel, checked it and without any delay, we hit the bed to start day 3 afresh.
Day 3
Plan was to cover Mangaladevi temple, Kadri Manjunath, Kudroli Temple and Kateel Durga parameshwari temple. If our stars are good, we wanted to have annadhanam at Kateel Durga parameshwari temple.
We first went to Mangaladevi temple, goddess Shakti is in the form of Mangaladevi, and we had a peaceful darshan there. We then headed to Kadri Manjunath, offering the water from the Natural stream outlet to the Shivling a few steps above the main temple in the vicinity is a great experience.
After an awesome darshan of lord Shiva we headed to Kudroli Temple, Kudroli Temple is dedicated to Gokarnanatheswara, another form of Lord Shiva, the temple is very beautiful, and the majority of the temple was painted in gold and for sure in night lights this temple will be pleasing to our eyesight
We reached Kateel Durga parameshwari temple at 12:15 PM, the crowds were moderate, and again excellent darshan of Goddess Durga, after darshan by gods grace we had an opportunity of have the annadhanam food served by the temple authorities. Day in and day out atleast a minimum of 1000 devotees will have food at the temple and food was very good. No confusion or commotion whatsoever, they follow a disciplined approach and serve food. Post our lunch, we went to the annadhanam office and made a small contribution from our end.
We started from the temple by around 1:15 PM and went straight to our room, we reached at around 2 PM, took some rest and the evening plan was to go to Panambur beach and experience the sunset. As planned started by around 4:30 PM, went to Hampankatta for some street shopping, and went straight to the beach. Spent our evening at the beach, watched the sunset, and called it a day
Day 4
Plan - Udupi, Malpe beach, Maravanthe beach and head to Murdeswar
Started by around 5:15 AM and reached Udupi Krishnar temple at 6:52 AM, by that time there was a queue with approximately 40 people, we joined them and completed our darshan at 8.15 AM, we were lucky enough to complete the darshan in about an hour, had there been a delay from our end it would have taken a minimum 3 hours.
Our breakfast was at Woodlands, the food was good and my rating will be 4/5, We then headed to Malpe Beach, the plan was to take a boat from Malpe beach and head to St mary's Island. But on that day they had stopped all the activities due to rain prediction, trust me the sun was smiling hard at 35* C and we were disappointed that we couldn't make it.
With heavy heart we headed to Murdeswar, en route there is a beach named Maravanthe, I came to know about this beach through Insta, the specialty of this beach is its ariel view, with that being said this beach is very close to the highway, and the drive of around 2 kms is a blessing in disguise
We reached Murdeswar at 1:15 PM, had our lunch and checked it to Sigandureshwari Lodge at 2 PM. Took some rest to keep our energy high to see the majestic statue of Lord Shiva, we had a small glimpse of the statue from our hotel which is around 1 KM away from the temple, such a HUGE statue.
Evening around 5 PM we went to the temple by walk to avoid parking hassles and as expected there was a huge pile of traffic near the parking area. We reached the temple and I couldn't take my eyes of Majestic Shiva, God bless the person who sculpted Lord Shiva, what a gigantic beauty and indeed a marvel. I am running short of adjectives and let picture do the talking
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